
mike kelly
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- Birthday 01/01/1970
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- Location Ireland
- Nationality Irish
- Gender Male
- Year of birth 1970
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lega4 gave positive reputation to a post in a topic: Hotel near HBF Munich - safe area?
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mike kelly gave positive reputation to a post in a topic: Drivers and hand signals
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mike kelly gave positive reputation to a post in a topic: Drivers and hand signals
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Fietsrad gave positive reputation to a post in a topic: Drivers and hand signals
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Fietsrad gave positive reputation to a post in a topic: Drivers and hand signals
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If he was pissed then he should not have been driving. Yet another reason for not walking out in front of his vehicle.
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The fact that the guy verbally abused me as he drove past proves that I was right. He clearly did not stop out of politeness.
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well, we don´t all live in Schwabing.
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What prompted me to start this thread: Last week I was walking home at about 10 pm on a dark quite street. I crossed the street using a traffic island (NOT a zebra crossing) and as I was on the island I saw an oncoming car. This was the only car on a deserted street so I waited for it to pass by before crossing as I always do. Instead of driving past me as normaly happens the car stopped. So did I. Then the guy started waving his hand. I stood my ground as I was afraid that this guy might be a mugger who would start the car and try to run me over as I was crossing.The street was deserted and I couldn´t understand why he did not drive on. Eventually he did, hurling abuse at me as he passed. Unfortunately I didn´t get his reg as it was dark although I doubt the police would do anything in such a case.
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mike kelly gave positive reputation to a post in a topic: Drivers and hand signals
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mike kelly gave positive reputation to a post in a topic: Drivers and hand signals
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mike kelly gave positive reputation to a post in a topic: Drivers and hand signals
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mike kelly gave positive reputation to a post in a topic: Drivers and hand signals
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mike kelly gave positive reputation to a post in a topic: Drivers and hand signals
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Are drivers legally allowed to make hand signals to pedestrians? For example, at traffic islands ("Verkehrsinseln") cars have the right of way and are not required to stop for pedestrians waiting on the traffic island. It can happen though that a car does stop and the driver waves his / her hand to indicate to the pedestrian that he / she should go ahead and cross the road. When I did my driving test in Ireland over 20 years ago I was explicitly told by the driving instructor never to give any hand signals such as waving to pedestrians as in the case of an accident as I could be considered (at least partly) liable.
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How to deal with the German mentality/rudeness
mike kelly replied to Happy76's topic in Life in Germany
When is the last time you were in an East German supermarket? -
How to deal with the German mentality/rudeness
mike kelly replied to Happy76's topic in Life in Germany
What gets me is how rude some supermarket cashiers are. Thankfully self checkouts are on the way to solving this problem.